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Continue to ChatIt [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression. - Christopher Hitchens from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/it-defending-salmon-rushdie-was-if-i-can-phrase-it-like-this-a-matter-of-everything-i-hated-versus-everything